Eating Out
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
Amuse Bouche
Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
